Aldous Huxley in a speech given to Berkley in which he admits that dystopic novels "Brave New World" and "1984" were not just fiction, but blueprints for two types of controlled and enslaved societies.
"The prophetic Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, speaks to an audience at University of California, Berkeley, surrounding the use of terrorism and pharmaceuticals to create willing slaves out of the population."
-- Aldous Huxley
"And it seems to me perfectly in the cards that there will be within the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing ⦠a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda, brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods."
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Hamil an Wiling
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November 23, 2012 Subject:
5 star
This well tuned lecture on the similarities between science, life, and his personal fiction seems far more compelling then today then in days past. If
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i dare say he laid the blue prints for this world we live in today remain Brave friends. Hamil an Wiling
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Pyrodin123321
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June 11, 2010 Subject:
Great Speech, reccomend listening to this simultaneousley
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